Quotes About Wealth

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of

I've got everything I need. That's the definition of affluence.

If somebody's got money outside of his salary, it shows up somewhere.

Always love or money. And it can't be love, because love makes you crazy, and this guy isn't crazy.

People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run to the store, is what. You would mark those numbers on the playslip. And you would win.

People that thin are usually rich. We live in strange times. Poor people are fat, and rich people are thin.

We drove under a giant gray wing and headed out over open blacktop straight for a small white airplane standing alone. A corporate thing. A business jet. A Lear, or a Gulfstream, or whatever rich people buy these days. The paint winked in the sun. There was no writing on it, apart from a tail number. No name, no logo. Just white paint. Its engines were turning slowly, and its stairs were down.

He left home early, as he always did, six days a week, fifty weeks a year. A cautious breakfast, appropriate to a short round man aiming to stay in shape through his forties. A long walk down the carpeted corridors of a lakeside house appropriate to a man who earned a thousand dollars on each of those three hundred days he worked. A thumb on the button of the garage-door

Some kind of a mechanism to burn off the panic she was feeling. On Friday she'd been a rich

What else can be bought and sold unobtrusively and is worth that much? Diamonds, maybe, but they're in Antwerp, not Hamburg. Drugs, maybe, but no American has a hundred million dollars' worth ready to ship. That's South and Central America. And Afghanistan has poppies of its own.

expensive silk jacket, ambitious.

crimes come down to love, hate, or money, and unlike what it says in the bible, the greatest of these is money.

Difference between the men and the boys is the price of their toys?

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, crimes come down to love, hate, or money, and unlike what it says in the bible, the greatest of these is money.

guy with the money stood up.

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and that's good news for the bodyguard business.

on the right, in what looked like the most expensive neighborhood since money was invented. To

He was with a woman in a thousand-dollar dress, and between them they acted out all kinds of dissatisfied body language, telegraphing it, semaphoring it, huffing and puffing, getting more and more exaggerated, until even the doorman noticed.

It seems that in the United States the one thing you can count on is that even during a depression, the rich get richer.

Remember, only fifty words makes the difference between a rich

Money is like grass. It withers. [... ] but our deeds last forever.

I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30